[librsync-devel] any chance to revive this ..

[Joachim H. <ach...@we...>]

Hello,

just wondering why this project is so dead. Great work has been done .. 
as it seems over years, to get a great algorithm into a library format 
and there were/are some ideas floating around related to this library. 
Still it is stuck at beta and doesn't appear to make the 1.0 release in 
near future. And using idle CPU power to accelerate network backup / 
data transfer should be an ever hot topic, at least where performance is 
bottlenecked by bandwidth.

rsync is extremely popular at university and in the hpc sector, to 
synchronise fileservers, machines cross campus, cluster nodes from the 
master or to run disk backups. A portable library which exposes the 
rsync algorithm makes a lot of sense to me.

 From my perspective, librsync lacks a revision and an updated docu 
rather more than any additional features. Personally, I would like to 
use librsync multi-platform and  "hacked" a version together which 
compiles a .dll under windows. The API does the trick for me, and I can 
connect network or file streams to the internal buffer structure. I 
don't need any fancy higher level stuff, which can be implemented in a 
different language, but I'd  (selfishly) wish that the core 
functionality would be better maintained and documented.

I hope this doesn't come accross as criticism, as I genuinely respect 
the work that has been done here.  

Joachim